Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty

Education and Qualification:
MBBS from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore
MS (General Surgery) from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore
Trained and worked as cardio thoracic surgeon under National
Health Service UK at Brompton Hospital and Guys Hospital
London Between 1983-1989.
Professor of International Health – University of Minnesota Medical School, USA
Professor, Rajeev Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, Bangalore
FRCS England

Contribution to Cardiac surgery:
First Heart surgeon in India to perform heart surgeries on newborn babies, used Micro chip camera to close holes in the Heart. Pioneered operations for complex problems of the Heart like Pulmonary Endarterectomy, Redo Heart surgery, Valve Repairs in newborn Babies and Aortic Aneurysm surgeries.

Contribution to the field of Medicine:
Dr. Shetty and his team have performed over Seventy thousand major heart surgeries out of which Fifteen Thousand operations were on children, many of them new born babies.

First team in the world to coin the term Micro Health Insurance.

Helped Karnataka state Government to launch Yeshashwini Micro

Health Insurance considered as the largest Micro Health Insurance Programme in the world.

Arogya Raksha Yogana in association with Mrs. Kiran Majumdar Shaw of Biocon.

First team in the world to coin the term “Health City” and in the Process of creating 5000 bed Health cities in every state capital of India

Manages worlds largest Telemedicine Programme through Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

Manages a chain of Rural Clinics in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh.

Awards:
            Rajyotsava Award – 2002

            Sir M. Visvesvaraya Memorial Award – 2003

            Ernst & Young – Entrepreneur of the Year – 2003

            Padmashree – 2003

            Dr. B C Roy Award – 2004

            Citizen Extraordinaire, Rotary – 2004

            India Innovation Award – 2004, By NDTV & EMPI (Awarded to      Micro Health Insurance Division )

            Social Entrepreneurship Award – World Economic Forum - 2005


Mission:

            Dr. Shetty and his team have a mission to make healthcare affordable to the masses living in third world countries.

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